Comment by rayiner

CNN’s fawningly positive coverage of this guy is nuts: https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/09/politics/video/syrian-preside.... He’s an actual Al Qaeda who violently conquered Syria. But now he puts on a suit and gets a haircut and suddenly CNN is smitten?

Yes, he looks good in a suit. I guess that makes people forget he’s a terrorist: https://nypost.com/2025/10/13/media/syrian-leader-appears-to...